"TEMPEST IN A TEACUP.”

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 233, 19 September 1911, Page 5

"TEMPEST IN A TEACUP.”

THE FISHER INTERVIFAA

MR. STEAD AC A IX. Loudon. Sept. 12. Mi-. W. T. Stead publishes ill the “Review of Ib'vievvs ■' Iris b'tter to Mr. Fish-'r, < I August sth. which has already hem published, and adds: “ J am at a loss to know to what Mr. Fisher takes exception. He is said to have accused me cf grossly misrepresenting him on two points. On.' app-ars to he in lhe stat••::nuit about hauling down the Hag it Britain soughi ft: compel her le. take part iu a war which An iridia i cnsidered to I’C unjust. '■Such an hv pot lio'i.s is undoubt nd 1 v eeatenivaiile. Mr. Fisher did not say what i-.iurse lie wouhl pursue, and lie ib’pro'-.iieil mnkiiig any <b‘<laration m ~dvam He di-<■];>imod <-oul empliitilig iniv :-amh m-m -e. •- Ji is .lil 11 lidiiidom le;n|iest iu a t --.1,-u|; : inn ii hi: ■■ revealed a weakness in Mr. Fisher's, ehar.icter, which 1 riigr -t lo not”. “ Mr. i-'iAi ~-r should haw refused to av nnnhiiig till ho had seen wluit 1 bad [irinte'l : then he ci llld haw done hinise’l good sortie” by adinitling and instil yi ng th” admirable sentiment A !• expressed, which I i iil hf idlv and :v-cw-atel v repm ■ al.’ ‘ fOn la'ing apprised < i lhe <oiit<'iits of the above cablegram. Mr. I' toiler d:■dared that It” drl nm wish m add anv. ihing tc wh.it he h:is idi-eady '-aid itpen th” xiibjo, ; . i